Gulf Coast Community Foundation of Venice has experts in a variety of topics, including, but not limited to:

Planned Giving Donor-Advised Funds Family Philanthropy Charitable Benefits Community Foundations

The Foundation can also provide expert sources in the following program areas:

Arts & Culture Health & Human Services Education Civic Affairs Environment

If you are interested in speaking to one of our experts, please contact:

Greg Luberecki
Director of Marketing and Communications
941.486.4608


For more information about community foundations and philanthropy in general, please visit the following Web sites:

The Chronicle of Philanthropy - http://www.philanthropy.com
The newspaper of the nonprofit world, published biweekly.  The site offers a searchable archive of articles from the past two years, and more than four years worth of grant listings.

Community Foundations of America - http://www.cfamerica.org
CFA is an organization created to offer community foundations the tools and environment to excel in a changing business environment.

The Council on Foundations - http://www.cof.org
COF is a nonprofit membership organization of grantmaking foundations and corporations whose mission is to serve the public good by promoting and enhancing responsible and effective philanthropy.

Guidestar - http://www.guidestar.com
Guidestar is the national database and leading source of information of nonprofit organizations.  The site contains programmatic and financial information about more than 850,000 American charitable nonprofit organizations.

The Foundation Center - http://www.fdncenter.org
The Foundation Center's mission is to support and improve institutional philanthropy by promoting public understanding of the field and helping grantseekers succeed.

Independent Sector - http://www.independentsector.org
Independent Sector is a coalition of leading nonprofits, foundations and corporations strengthening not-for-profit initiatives, philanthropy and citizen action.

National Center for Charitable Statistics - Resources on Nonprofits and Philanthropy
http://nccs.urban.org/resource.htm
The National Center for Charitable Statistics serves as the national repository of statistical information on the nonprofit sector from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and other sources.

Southeastern Council of Foundations - http://www.secf.org
The Southeastern Council of Foundations is a membership association of grantmaking foundations and programs that promotes excellence throughout the field of philanthropy and the creation of new philanthropic resources to benefit the region.